Una Mullally

• Uncategorized
• October 29, 2012, 11:15

Taking some time off to go to this and to do some of this and hopefully to see this. Blog action will return on Monday November 12th.

• film
• October 29, 2012, 11:10

Wrote this piece in today’s paper about the growing number of mini-festivals and cinema events happening, as opposed to the average movie going experience we’re used to in Ireland.

• Daily Digest
• October 26, 2012, 16:44

Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to four years in prison. Bahahahahaha. Little girl tells Kate Middleton she “hates princesses”. Totes awks bbz. Cloud Atlas (the movie) is galumphing and heavy-handed according to Slate. Galumphing? In other Cloud Atlas news, Lana …

• celebrity comedy
• October 26, 2012, 15:27

• music video
• October 26, 2012, 10:54

(Via State.ie)

• film journalism music
• October 26, 2012, 10:05

This Sunday, the RTE Concert Orchestra plays the score of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in the O2 in Dublin live under a giant screen showing the film. The guy behind one of the most phenomenal film scores ever is three-time …

• Uncategorized
• October 25, 2012, 17:52

Oprah is developing a drama series for HBO. Kurt & Courtney: The Musical. Styleblaster is a live fashion blog from Williamsburg. Obama basically calls Romney a bullshitter. Download MMOTHS’ mix for Fader. Cool photos from inside Mecca. How the makers …

• art DIY going out
• October 25, 2012, 17:37

Interested in doing something creative but don’t want to spend loads of money? Into the idea of a night class but don’t want to take an evening out of your social life? Want to meet loads of cool artists and …

• theatre
• October 25, 2012, 16:48

Taking Back Our Voices is a new work in progress piece directed by Oonagh Murphy. It’s the culmination of seven months of meetings between six theatre artists (Caitríona Ní Mhurchú, Kathy Rose O’Brien, Aoibhinn McGinnity, Sorcha Kenny, Niamh Shaw and …

• art TV
• October 25, 2012, 10:47

• PopLives
• October 25, 2012, 08:45

Every week this Q&A will find out what various heads in music, film, fashion, theatre, bukes, performance, tech stuff, and whatever else are consuming. Niall Byrne is a multi-award-winning music blogger who blogs at Nialler9.com. He has curated gigs at SXSW, …

• festivals film
• October 24, 2012, 15:53

Now that The Master has a release date (November 16th), The Light House is celebrating the new Paul Thomas Anderson film with a retrospective of his work. Check out the listings here. (Cool artwork by Ian at MIDASpaces via the …

• Daily Digest
• October 24, 2012, 14:24

Love these Vans. Google Street View goes into the wild. Dita Von Teese interview in which she talks about nipple hair. A blimp carrying a Mitt Romney presidential campaign slogan that read ‘America Needs Romney’ crashed in Florida earlier this …

• TV
• October 24, 2012, 13:59

The best drama on RTE returns on November 11th. Yup, Love/Hate, which also features one of my favourite Irish actors, Peter Coonan (Fran), is back on the streets. RTE sez: “The new series sees the reign of King Nidge (Tom …

• film photography
• October 24, 2012, 11:44

Check out this great Tumblr FILMography via Rick O’Shea, which positions black and white stills from famous films in their original settings.

• TV
• October 24, 2012, 11:08

• activism gigs LGBT
• October 24, 2012, 10:47

Heathers, Brian Kennedy, This Club, Royseven, Bitches With Wolves, and more join forces this Sunday for a fundraising gig for Marriage Equality taking place in the Mansion House in Dublin. You can buy tickets here.

• Daily Digest
• October 23, 2012, 16:10

Patrick Freyne interviews the awesome Joe Sacco in today’s newspaper. Eddie Hobbs’ Wall Street Journal rant where he accuses Enda Kenny of leading “a Vichy government.” Bobby Womack wants to record an album with Lana Del Rey. Castletown Town Council …

• Uncategorized
• October 23, 2012, 10:52

I noticed a post on Buzzfeed about Jem and the Holograms dolls being re-issued in time for Christmas. Brilliant! I thought. Jem was always way cooler than Barbie, a kickass alternative to the latter’s dead-staring doll with an impossible physique. …

• festivals film
• October 22, 2012, 15:39

The IFI’s annual Halloween film festival, the Horrorthon kicks off on Thursday with five days of screams across the Temple Bar cinema’s screens. You can download the festival programme in PDF form here. I saw Room 237 last week, and …

• music
• October 22, 2012, 14:25

I was reminded of SOAK recently tweavesdropping on a conversation between Jim Carroll and Leagues O’Toole, and remembered a recommendation from my friend Molly who is always good with the aul new music tips. SOAK is Bridie Monds-Watson, a 16-year-old …

• festivals film
• October 22, 2012, 13:59

I’m currently digesting a great weekend of music docs after OneTwoOneTwo, a music documentary festival I organised with my friend Cillian and the Light House cinema in Smithfield. I feel like I’ve been living in the cinema for the past …

• Daily Digest
• October 22, 2012, 13:44

Paul Kimmage on Lance Armstrong. James Blunt quits the music industry. He sold 11 million albums and is now chilling in Ibiza. Not bad going really. Eamon Gilmore says there is no timetable for legislation on gender recognition. Madonna’s ‘Erotica’ …

• PopLives
• October 19, 2012, 09:54

Every week this Q&A will find out what various heads in music, film, fashion, theatre, bukes, performance, tech stuff, and whatever else are consuming. Jeanie Finlay is an artist and filmmaker and the director of Sound It Out, which screens …

• video
• October 18, 2012, 18:47

A supercut of Claire Danes crying. (via Broadsheet.ie)

• art
• October 18, 2012, 18:17

Last week I wrote about the Irish language in contemporary art and today, I spent most of the day at the Fás agus Forbairt gathering in Axis in Ballymun, where artists who work using the Irish language spoke about their experiences, challenges, indeed, …

• art
• October 18, 2012, 17:45

A new season in the Barbican next year celebrates the great Marcel Duchamp. There’s a piece in the Guardian on it here. Here’s Hans Richter, Duchamp and Jean Cocteau’s experimental 1957 film, A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements. And here’s …

• Daily Digest
• October 17, 2012, 17:55

Interesting piece by Jim Carroll on What Richard Did, following up from Shane Hegarty’s column on the film. Developing apps before their teens. Beyonce is doing next year’s Superbowl halftime show. A guide to celebrity Halloween parties. Dublin’s lesser spotted …

• documentary music
• October 17, 2012, 16:14

One of the best – and most hilarious – music documentaries of all time, Dig! screens this Friday night at the Light House Cinema in Smithfield as part of OneTwoOneTwo, the new music doc film fest I’m co-organising. If you …

• music
• October 17, 2012, 14:17

I wrote about Villagers’ latest single ‘The Waves’ previously here, and now there are a couple of remixes to add to your listening post. You can listen to the MMOTHS remix here, one that deconstructs the track, separating its waves …

• magazines music
• October 17, 2012, 13:43

Great cover. Marina plays Dublin’s Olympia tonight and again on November 20th.

• Daily Digest
• October 16, 2012, 15:21

How videogames are changing Disney. TV3′s Director of Programming, Ben Frow, is leaving. Just how many Facebook friends do you actually need? That Girls Aloud tune in full. The debate deal Romney and Obama agreed on. People keep nicking paintings. …

• music video
• October 16, 2012, 13:26

• art
• October 16, 2012, 12:01

Most of the press and publicity surrounding Alice Maher’s mid-career retrospective, Becoming, at IMMA’s Earlsfort Terrace outpost focuses on one specific image, a still from a new piece of film, Cassandra’s Necklace. At first glance, it looks like a neck adorned with …

• art books food
• October 15, 2012, 15:47

Fear and Loathing cupcakes. Amazing. (via Broadsheet).

• art feminism
• October 15, 2012, 13:49

How awesome are these?  

• documentary film music
• October 15, 2012, 13:39

Tony Clayton-Lea had a great interview with Patty Schemel, the former Hole drummer and woman behind the new documentary Hit So Hard in The Ticket on Friday. The film will have its Irish premiere this Friday at OneTwoOneTwo, a brand …

• Daily Digest
• October 15, 2012, 13:25

OMG! It’s (a bit of) the new Girls Aloud single: How the Dublin Web Summit works. Fascinating article on Hipstamatic. Honey Boo Boo’s uncle on being “a gay redneck”. Unmasking Violentacrez, the biggest troll on the web. A report from …

• PopLives
• October 11, 2012, 12:01

Every week this Q&A will find out what various heads in music, film, fashion, theatre, bukes, performance, tech stuff, and whatever else are consuming. Kevin Barry is an award-winning Irish author. (pic by Hugh O’Conor) What are you reading? It’s A …

• Daily Digest
• October 10, 2012, 14:54

Morrissey on the Colbert Report. Harvey Weinstein and Michael Flatley launch World Dance Awards. 15 8-bit horror games. Peaches Geldof writes about gay marriage. Lady Gaga hung out with Julia Assange. Walrus orphan! The New Yorker on Julia Gillard and …

• art Dublin photography
• October 10, 2012, 10:48

Crafty artist Mick Minogue transformed a phone box on George’s St in Dublin into a Lionel Richie installation recently as part of the Engage Project. (Pic via Mick Minogue Made This) Now Minogue is looking for the dozens, perhaps hundreds, of …

• journalism video
• October 9, 2012, 17:48

  And the original…

• Daily Digest
• October 9, 2012, 17:39

Banter is coming to OneTwoOneTwo, a music documentary festival I’m co-organising. And the subject is MADONNA ahead of our In Bed With Madonna screening. Will be deadly. Amazing speech from Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. “I will not be lectured …

• music
• October 9, 2012, 14:28

Well, this is exciting. Girls Aloud have added a countdown to their website.

• TV
• October 9, 2012, 12:28

As tweeted by Colm Tobin, Science Fiction, currently showing on CBBC and RTE has been picked up by Aardman, who are partnering with Kite Production to secure the global TV, DVD and publishing rights. Details are here.

• sport tech
• October 9, 2012, 11:28

Shortly, a dude called Felix Baumgartner is going to try a beat Joe Kittinger’s record-breaking 1960 skydive 102,800ft. It’s a Red Bull-sponsored project called Stratos and the live stream is here. The project has been five years in the making. …

• fashion
• October 9, 2012, 11:12

I’m into this. Perfect for the wool-heavy winter months. Will be stocked in the Design Centre in Powerscourt from October 29th.

• Daily Digest
• October 8, 2012, 16:34

Little Green Cars play Whelans on November 8th. Tina Fey on the future of Liz Lemon. Jon Stewart V Bill O’Reilly. Why are bottles of champagne smashed on new ships? They don’t make boybands like they used to. Bruno Mars …

• music TV
• October 8, 2012, 11:10

Great vid. Check out Big Music Week. If you don’t have time to go through the day by day menu, I’ve picked the following as highlights: during the week, 2fm will be playing highlights from the best sets at this …

• tech video
• October 8, 2012, 10:53

  Here’s the original: The laugh out loud vacuousness of Facebook’s actual ad celebrating 1 billion users might be fun to parody, but the pompousness of positioning itself alongside chairs, doorbells, bridges, basketball, airplanes and great nations is frighteningly delusional, …

• celebrity music video
• October 8, 2012, 09:25

Just goes to show that if you’re a pop star in 2012, it doesn’t matter if you vom on stage, because whether you’re Bieber or Gaga, the ‘live’ vocal backing track will always have your back.

• festivals gigs going out music music industry photography
• October 4, 2012, 14:13

Irish music has changed A LOT in 10 years; the scene, the sound, the bands, the ways of becoming successful, the audience. The Hard Working Class Heroes festival has seen, instigated and been part of plenty of that change since …

• PopLives
• October 4, 2012, 11:18

Every week this Q&A will find out what various heads in music, film, fashion, theatre, bukes, performance, tech stuff, and whatever else are consuming. Brigie De Courcy is the executive producer of Fair City, Ireland’s longest-running soap opera.   What …

• politics TV
• October 4, 2012, 09:32

• Daily Digest
• October 3, 2012, 17:00

LeBron James branded heroin. Unofficial obvs. Drugs are no strangers to branding with Rolex and Mitsubishi logos famously being branded on ecstasy pills. But celebrity-branded drugs? That’s a new one, right? No, NO, NOOOOOOOOOO. A.A. Gill has a pop at …

• celebrity music music industry TV
• October 3, 2012, 16:29

An amazing scrap that someone just happened to film.

• festivals film
• October 3, 2012, 14:07

Myself and my friend Cillian have put together a new music documentary festival with The Light House Cinema. We are SUPER excited about it. OneTwoOneTwo will take place over the 19th, 20th and 21st of October. We’ve lined up some …

• music
• October 3, 2012, 13:02

He’s got another Christmas tunes boxset coming out. This one is called Silver & Gold Volumes 6 – 10, featuring songs recorded between 2006 and 2010. Aaron and Bryce Dessner (The National), Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), DM Stith, Cat Martino …

• film music
• October 2, 2012, 18:26

Has there ever been a more perfect modern match for a Bond theme than Adele? Thank Q the Bond theme tune honchos have dispensed with those weird recent segues into rawk. Anyway, here’s a snippet. Sounds Bondy. Excellent.

• music
• October 2, 2012, 14:54

Lar plays guitar in Adebisi Shank, and I was delighted to spot his debut EP over on Nialler9. You can download it for free here. Do it. It’s truly joyous music.

• Daily Digest
• October 2, 2012, 14:44

An oldie but a goodie: Ira Glass interviewed talking about the basics of storytelling. Q&A with Joe Dante about The Hole, the trailer of which you can watch here: Quite like the new Terry Richardson t-shirt. The 10 most successful …

• art TV
• October 2, 2012, 14:25

Gay Byrne isn’t exactly synonymous with modern art, but somehow he has ended up in this year’s Turner Prize show. Gaybo is part of a piece by Luke Fowler, who has made (another) film about R.D. Laing, a frequent subject …

• awards celebrity film
• October 1, 2012, 18:07

I didn’t see that one coming, to be perfectly honest. Moving towards an edgier broadcast host, Seth MacFarlane – he of Family Guy, Ted, American Dad and The Cleveland Show – will be taking over the MCing duties next year. …

• books tech
• October 1, 2012, 17:59

Kindle lights up its screen with the new Paperwhite model. (Photo by Alex Washburn/Wired)

• film
• October 1, 2012, 17:01

It’s been hard to avoid the avalanche of positive reviews surrounding Lenny Abrahamson’s new film, What Richard Did, with Tara Brady saying it’s likely to be the best Irish film to emerge from Ireland since the turn of the millennium, …

• TV
• October 1, 2012, 16:25

You don’t get good decent reality TV anymore. Most programmes that trade on the idea of people competing against one and other do so cruelly, with tasks that always seem to culminate in someone ending up with a collection of Australasian …

• PopLives
• October 1, 2012, 15:07

Every week this Q&A will find out what various heads in music, film, fashion, theatre, bukes, performance, tech stuff, and whatever else are consuming. John Scott is the artistic director of John Scott Dance, formerly Irish Modern Dance Theatre. What …

• music
• October 1, 2012, 13:59

Autostraddle has put together a near perfect queens of jazz playlist. Sit back and enjoy your afternoon sounds.  

• Daily Digest
• October 1, 2012, 12:42

An online novel written in real time. Facebook refuses to remove comments on Meagher case. Lindsay Lohan allegedly assaulted. Model Karlie Kloss “reverse airbrushed”. Why fur is popular (again). Julian Fellowes is planning a Downton Abbey prequel. Videos of NBA stars in high school. …

• clubs gigs going out
• October 1, 2012, 12:25

Early enough into Heathers’ headline gig at the Academy on Saturday night, Ellie Macnamara remarked that she and her sister Louise genuinely thought the crowd would be about two rows deep, leaving them enough room to breakdance on the venue floor, …